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# Re: CRC

- Date: Tue, 13 Feb 1996 05:01:17 PST
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    In article <3120F052.34D9@baymoo.sfsu.edu>,
    Richard Connamacher  <phantom@baymoo.sfsu.edu> wrote:
    >
    > Hrm..  how accurate is it?  I would imagine that whever you take a
    > large chunk of data and compress it into a tiny signature, it would
    > be possible for two different sets of data, or more, to have the same
    > signature.  I assume it's much faster than checking if the data
    > itself is identical on both sides of the connection :)
    >

    Correct... however, what do you want the CRC (MD5 would probably be
    better, really) to operate on?  Values?  Verbs?  Properties?
    Objects?  Those would all have to be handled differently internally.

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